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SUMMARY:A Path towards Citizenship: The Effects of Early College High Schools on Criminal Convictions and Voting
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 11\, Douglas Lauen\, PhD\, will present A Path towards Citizenship: The Effects of Early College High Schools on Criminal Convictions and Voting as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nLauen is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Sociology and the Education Policy Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Lauen’s work examines the effectiveness of educational policies\, school types\, and interventions on students and how these effects vary for traditionally underserved populations. \nLauen is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow Ted Mouw. Mouw is a Professor of Sociology. His research focuses on social mobility and factors that affect the upward mobility of low wage workers. \nFriday\, Jan 11\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street \nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nFormal schooling is critically important to human capital development and socialization. Those with more education enjoy many benefits – higher income\, better health\, and longer lives\, to name just three. Education also produces positive externalities beyond individual benefits. Highly educated people are more likely to vote\, become civically involved\, and are less likely to commit crimes. For this reason\, virtually all cultures subsidize education\, although the quantity and nature of this support varies across countries. While we know a great deal about the broad effects of educational attainment on civic outcomes\, we actually know very little about the effects of specific educational interventions on these types of outcomes\, in part because long term follow-up studies are rare.  \nThis talk will present early findings from a long term follow up study of early college high schools (ECHS) from North Carolina. ECHS are small schools of choice that provide students with the opportunity to earn\, at no financial cost to them\, two years of transferable college credit or an Associate’s degree while simultaneously satisfying high school graduation requirements. This promising intervention is aimed at smoothing the transition from high school to college for under-represented demographic groups. There are more than 85 ECHSs in North Carolina\, although the model is implemented in more than 30 states in the U.S. as well. \nThe study team assembled personally-identified population level statewide administrative data on all NC high school students (including ECHS) and linked it to postsecondary enrollment and completion data (through in-state four-year and two-year institutions and the National Student Clearinghouse)\, incarceration records (from the NC Department of Public Safety)\, and voting records (from the NC Board of Elections). Together\, these data comprise one of the most comprehensive data sources in the U.S. to study the effects of educational interventions. \nOur results show that early colleges have positive effects on test scores and post-secondary degree attainment. The intervention also reduces the likelihood of incarceration and increases the likelihood of voting. We argue that the effects on crime are likely robust to unmeasured confounding\, while the effects on voting most likely are not. Quasi-experimental impacts for some outcomes have been validated against impacts generated from a randomized controlled trial of the same intervention in a subset of the sites during the same time period. \nCV for Douglas Lauen\, PhD. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/a-path-towards-citizenship-the-effects-of-early-college-high-schools-on-criminal-convictions-and-voting/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Mucking about with Maps: Integrating Remote Sensing and Archival Maps in West Africa
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 18\, 2019\, Colin West\, PhD\, will present Mucking about with Maps: Integrating Remote Sensing and Archival Maps in West Africa as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nWest is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. \nWest is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow and Center Director Elizabeth Frankenberg. Frankenberg\, Professor of Sociology\, has served as the Director of Carolina Population Center since 2017. \nFriday\, Jan 18\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street \nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nLand degradation is a complex global challenge that has historically attracted strong interdisciplinary scholarship. Especially in the world’s drylands\, social and physical scientists have long collaborated on applied research to understand the drivers of desertification – land degradation in arid\, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. In fact\, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD – 1996) explicitly recognizes it as a both a human and physical process. This presentation presents preliminary results on mapping both land degradation and rehabilitation in the Sahel of West Africa. Using archival maps of land-use/land-cover (LULC) and high-resolution satellite imagery\, we explore how patterns of browning and greening vary across communities. \nThis talk will present three of our efforts to “muck around with maps” to identify areas of “greening” and “browning” in northern Burkina Faso. My colleague\, Dr. Aaron Moody in the Dept. of Geography is a remote sensing expert and out effort has been guided by CPC’s pioneering work to “pixelize the social” and “socialize the pixel.” Northern Burkina Faso is a region where communities have invested heavily in widespread Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures. Experts have suggested that these local SWC investments may explain larger regional patterns of greening. The first part presents on our work combining a time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI and Rainfall Estimate (RFE) to identify areas of greening and browning in Burkina Faso. The second presents our work converting archival maps of Land-Use/Land-cover from Yatenga\, Burkina Faso to GIS layers using remote sensing and image processing techniques. The last part presents our work mapping localized greening and browning through participatory mapping and high-resolution satellite imagery. These demonstrate the utility of combining ethnography with remote sensing analysis to better understand LULC processes and patterns. \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/mucking-about-with-maps-integrating-remote-sensing-and-archival-maps-in-west-africa/
CATEGORIES:2018-19 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qingling Cohort Study
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 25\, Sean Sylvia\, PhD\, will present Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qingling Cohort Study as part of the Carolina Population Center 2018-2019 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series.\nSean Sylvia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Sylvia is a health and development economist whose research focuses on designing and evaluating innovative approaches to improve the delivery of health services in developing countries. His work relies heavily on fieldwork to collect primary data and most uses experimental or quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the causal effects of policies and interventions. In past and ongoing projects\, he has studied the design of performance-based incentives for providers\, school-based health and nutrition programs\, early childhood health and development\, and the quality of primary care in low-resource settings. His work has been published journals such as the BMJ\, PLOS Medicine\, the American Journal of Public Health\, Health Affairs\, and Health Policy and Planning. He has long-standing collaborations with researchers at a number of universities in China where he has directed several large-scale surveys and randomized trials. Prior to joining UNC\, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University of China. \nSylvia is hosted by Carolina Population Center Fellow and Center Director Elizabeth Frankenberg. Frankenberg\, Professor of Sociology\, has served as the Director of Carolina Population Center since 2017. \nFriday\, Jan 25\n12-1\nCarolina Square Room 2002\n123 West Franklin Street \nLocation information is here. \nPRESENTATION ABSTRACT \nA growing body of cross-disciplinary research suggests that human capital deficits in early life negatively affect later life outcomes and that interventions in early childhood can substantially improve health and productivity in adulthood. Given this evidence – and growing recognition that human capital development is an important mechanism affecting the persistence of poverty and inequality – investing in early childhood has risen on the policy agenda in a number of developing countries. The goal of the Qingling cohort study is to inform ECD policies in China. Across five waves of data collection\, this study follows a cohort of more than 1800 children in rural areas of southern Shaanxi province from 6 months of age until age 5. Using this unique data\, this talk will discuss the nutritional and developmental status of rural children and its evolution in early childhood. It will also present the short and medium-term results of two embedded randomized trials: one testing the effects of micronutrient supplementation and another intervention providing parenting support through home visits by cadres from China’s Family Planning Commission. Although the effects of micronutrient supplementation subside by age 2\, we find persistent effects of the parenting intervention on cognitive outcomes. Data on parenting activities are used to explore behavioral mechanisms underlying these results. \nCurriculum Vita (PDF) \n    Instructors: To arrange for class attendance\, contact CPC at cpc@unc.edu by the Monday before the seminar \n    Streaming may be available and must be arranged at least one week in advance. \nThis seminar is part of the Carolina Population Center’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.
URL:https://www.cpc.unc.edu/event/early-childhood-development-in-rural-china-evidence-from-the-qingling-cohort-study-2/
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